The Irish Breastfeeding Monitor That Could Change Everything for New Mums

If you’ve ever sat up at 3am wondering whether your baby is actually getting enough milk — and felt that creeping, exhausting dread that maybe they’re not — this one is for you. An Irish company has built something that could genuinely change the breastfeeding experience for mothers across the country, and it’s landing in Irish shops very soon.

Coroflo, the award-winning Irish health-tech company, has opened pre-orders for Coro — described as the world’s first accurate breastfeeding monitor. The device will be available in Tony Kealys baby stores and across the McCauley Pharmacy network from 13th July 2026. Pre-orders are live now at www.coroflo.com.

The problem every breastfeeding mum knows

By six months, in Ireland, exclusive breastfeeding rates fall to somewhere between 1% and 6%. That’s a dramatic drop, and the single biggest reason mothers cite for stopping earlier than they wanted to is concern about low milk supply.

For years — decades, really — women who raised this worry were often reassured that it was just “perceived anxiety.” And while perceived anxiety is absolutely real and valid, so too is physiological low supply, which is increasingly recognised but notoriously difficult to distinguish from the former. The result? Mothers left guessing, stressing and, far too often, giving up something they wanted to continue.

Coro is designed to close that gap. It uses a patented tiny flow meter built inside a soft silicone nipple shield — so it feels natural to wear — and measures exactly how much milk a baby has taken during a feed in real time. The data feeds directly into a free companion app, giving mothers immediate, accurate information rather than the fraught guesswork of weigh-ins before and after every feed.

Born from a very personal place

Coroflo wasn’t built in a lab by people detached from the reality of new parenthood. Co-founder Helen is a medical doctor who found herself in a deeply stressful situation after her son was born very small, making precise monitoring of his milk intake medically important.

“The only way to check his intake was stressful, inaccurate weigh-ins,” she explains. “The lack of immediate results and inability to check in the comfort of our own home was agonising. My husband Jamie, an engineer, realised his experience with flow-monitoring could solve this. We truly hope that other women facing similar hurdles find our technology can help them achieve their breastfeeding goals — whatever they may be.”

That last part matters. Coro isn’t positioned as a tool to pressure mothers into breastfeeding longer. It’s about giving women who want to breastfeed — and who are struggling without data — the information they need to make their own informed choices. That’s a meaningful distinction.

Award-winning tech with serious backing

This isn’t a startup operating on hope alone. Coroflo has already made a significant splash internationally, winning a string of major awards at CES Las Vegas — one of the world’s biggest technology showcases. Those include CNET’s Best of CES Parent Tech, the Techlicious Spotlight Award, Lara Lewington’s Best Health Tech Award and the prestigious Red Dot Award for Innovation. The company is supported by Enterprise Ireland and the European Commission and is actively collaborating with global researchers to advance lactation science using the kind of precise data that simply hasn’t existed before now.

Coroflo was founded in 2017 with a very specific mission: to build technology that supports maternal and infant health in ways that actually reflect what mothers experience. With Coro arriving in Irish stores on 13th July, it looks like that mission is moving firmly from concept to reality.

Pre-orders are open now at www.coroflo.com. Coro will also be available in Tony Kealys and McCauley Pharmacies from 13th July 2026.